Opinion – Page 317
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A nonsulting request
Those of your readers who managed to read e-Building on their sandy beach may have noticed the pretty fundamental consultation launched by Andrew Stunell, the Minister for Building Regulations (“What would you do with the Regs, 6 August, page 20)
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The train line
News that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed.
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CommentIt's just a step to the left ...
Our thanks, and the usual £25 voucher, go to Mukesh Modhvadia, a commercial manager at the King’s Cross Redevelopment Programme, for these aerobic pictures of a window cleaner living dangerously.
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A guide to Queensland's construction law
Australia is one of the few places in the world experiencing something of a building boom and if you’re a UK firm keen to get involved, you might like to go to Queensland, where things are pleasantly familiar.
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CommentA double-dip in house prices isn’t really the problem
The fall in transactions is going to hit the housebuilding industry much harder
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Rachel Shaw: 'This is not the end of exciting education buildings'
Cuts to BSF have meant a sea change for architects working in the education sector and the focus is on making existing buildings work better
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CommentPassivhaus refurb diary, part 5: airtightness testing, take two
The team behind the retrofit of an Edwardian property using Passivhaus principles run a second airtightness test
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CommentThe fire alarm is ringing
It’s official: if a timber-frame building catches fire, it will suffer more damage than if it were built using other forms of construction
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CommentImprovised theatre
This week the strangest drama venue in London opens on the South Bank. And, as Martin Spring found out, it’s a brilliant performance by an 80-strong cast
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CommentLorraine Lee vs Chartered Properties: A late adjudicator
In this case the adjudicator’s mistake was to take the weekend to type up his decision, here’s why…
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CommentCountry matters
For the architect, the country offers variety, novelty and the prospect of tanned craftsmen toiling in the wolds. But if you want control over a project, stick to the city
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CommentQuentin Shears: Can you erect a tent without pegs?
The cladding contractor hit her brother with a tent pole. ’Children! You can’t fight. This is an NEC contract!’
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CommentIt ain't half hot, cold and muddy
Russian veteran Harvey Smith tells us how to cope with a 74ºC annual temperature range, find unusual ways to lift a 12-tonne spire - and why Ladas are better cars than Range Rovers
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CommentWonders & blunders with Nicholas Parsons
Nicholas Parsons doesn’t hesitate to praise St Pancras station. But he finds post-war housing repetitive and deviant
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Swedish lessons
It was interesting to read the discussion on building.co.uk about how to harness the “sustainability values” of the 2012 Olympic Games (Green expertise in danger of being lost, 27 July)
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All skilled up and nowhere to go
News that the likes of BT and Network Rail have been inundated with applicants for their apprenticeship programmes should be welcomed
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CommentHitting the roof
I have asked Building for a right to reply to Luke Wessely’s column “Land of the Dachdeckermeister” (6 August, page 25), in which someone with a clear vested interest in a particular form of roofing wanted to suggest that its choice was a no-brainer
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Enforcing no set-off clauses
In her otherwise excellent column on the 2010 RIBA forms of architect’s appointment (A return to a simpler time, 13 August), Rachel Barnes predicts that a court may decline to enforce the no set-off clause
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Controlling interest
Doom and gloom followed the latest Construction Trade Survey’s reports. But this forecast of a bleak future should be seen as an opportunity to learn from past mistakes and challenge the way the industry works
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